The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham

...joined the evergrowing bunch of books without a shelf today, thanks to the coupon from the book quiz last week.
The wise old man at Premier recommended 2 books, one of which was a collection put together by the Paris Review of Books and another which was a collection of stories set in France (sort of like "find your way around France using famous stories set in France" kind of a book). Given my current ascetic approach to book buying, I held myself :)